I messed around with SimCity when I was younger but could never figure out how to play without cheating. Seems so hard to raise money. I should check out GameFAQs and see how to actually win the game in a legit fashion.

I used a free Redbox rental to try out AC3. Pretty good, played for a few hours. I could see myself buying it eventually when it's cheap.

On the last mission of BL2. I have to say that I'm quite impressed with how much the series has improved since the first game, which I didn't even finish because it simply isn't fun without other people. BL2 you can play comfortably by yourself and have a blast.

I love the original Borderlands, but I think I'll wait until an edition that includes the DLC on-disc comes out. The second sounds better in every regard. I've tried to replay the first, but it's hard to get into. It's a good, but pretty darn flawed title.

One game I'm kinda interested about is RE6. I wish Blockbuster still existed so I could rent it.

I love the original Borderlands, but I think I'll wait until an edition that includes the DLC on-disc comes out. The second sounds better in every regard. I've tried to replay the first, but it's hard to get into. It's a good, but pretty darn flawed title.

One game I'm kinda interested about is RE6. I wish Blockbuster still existed so I could rent it.

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"The first Game of the Year Edition, released on October 12, 2010, in North America,[23] included the original Borderlands game, one-time use vouchers for all 4 of the downloadable content packs, and a hand drawn bonus map. Players who bought this edition gained access to the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club, granting them exclusive items, including early access to the Duke Nukem Forever playable demo before it was publicly released.[24] The second GOTY version included all 4 of the DLCs on a second disc on Xbox 360, but on the same disc on PS3."

I love the original Borderlands, but I think I'll wait until an edition that includes the DLC on-disc comes out. The second sounds better in every regard. I've tried to replay the first, but it's hard to get into. It's a good, but pretty darn flawed title.

One game I'm kinda interested about is RE6. I wish Blockbuster still existed so I could rent it.

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"The first Game of the Year Edition, released on October 12, 2010, in North America,[23] included the original Borderlands game, one-time use vouchers for all 4 of the downloadable content packs, and a hand drawn bonus map. Players who bought this edition gained access to the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club, granting them exclusive items, including early access to the Duke Nukem Forever playable demo before it was publicly released.[24] The second GOTY version included all 4 of the DLCs on a second disc on Xbox 360, but on the same disc on PS3."

I cant wait for the new SimCity coming out in March, online be damned- these are the guys to pull it off with class. Even if they don't get in right on release I believe any major problems will be promptly addressed and corrected with a fusion of humility and cleverness.

F*** me! I just don't like Zelda games, anymore! I mean, I like the older ones, but I cannot muster the interest to play anything beyond Minish Cap, with the exception being an occasional romp through Phantom Hourglass. I don't like the controls in Skyward Sword. They're an annoying combo of "sluggish" and "greasy."

The controls in Skyward Sword were the best controls in a Zelda game, ever. The last sword fight was one of the high points of the last several years of gaming. I am sorry if they don't click with you, Bonemeal, but the game deserved all of the praise it has received.

Edit: They take some getting used to, but once you get used to them, they are golden.

The controls in Skyward Sword were the best controls in a Zelda game, ever. The last sword fight was one of the high points of the last several years of gaming. I am sorry if they don't click with you, Bonemeal, but the game deserved all of the praise it has received.

Edit: They take some getting used to, but once you get used to them, they are golden.

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Yeah, Skyward Sword controls made the game. It looked and sounded nice too, puzzles were quite solid as well. It was very linear though, very restrictive in where you can go and often a one-way street in the first half. Still, probably my favorite 3D Zelda. 2D Zelda is just better, though.

I love Redbox. Tons of locations around me. There's so many ways to get free rental codes. I just rented the new Sonic kart game for two days for free.

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Heard that was pretty good. I loved Mario Kart DS but wasn't too thrilled with MK Wii and MK7. And Sega Kart tugs at my Genesis kid nostalgia a bit as well. Surprised to see Joe Musashi there, but Sketch Turner or Vectorman would have made my day.

I was cleaning my room today and found my Thief 1&2 double pack, which contained two Thief II disks. Did it come on two disks, or did they just give me an extra CD? I should check (it's only 12 feet away) instead of asking the internet...

Going back and forth between Dishonored and Mark of the Ninja. Beat Dishonored with low chaos. Going to go back through and finally fulfill that built up desire to murder everything in sight.

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I beat Dishonored on low chaos and replayed the last mission and killed everyone. That was enough to tip the scales to get the high chaos ending. I still think I wanna go through a second playthrough to see how killing everything affects the rest of the game.

The controls in Skyward Sword were the best controls in a Zelda game, ever. The last sword fight was one of the high points of the last several years of gaming. I am sorry if they don't click with you, Bonemeal, but the game deserved all of the praise it has received.

Edit: They take some getting used to, but once you get used to them, they are golden.

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I'm not saying it didn't deserve praise or anything; it just didn't strike me. I still don't quite know why. I fire up my Cube every so often for a romp in OoT or WW, but I cannot get into the ones after. I dunno what I'm expecting. Maybe my tastes just changed. Nothing more, nothing less.

So, I've never touched Diablo 3, so I didn't know about this at all, but apparently there's an in game auction house that uses real money in it. In this auction house, there's rare Legendary items for sale. One of those items was a Hamburger Dagger. People coveted this dagger, so intrepid players did some hardcore questing to bring it to the auction. The price was driven up, until it was over a hundred bucks a pop. Then, miraculously, there was a sell-off, and the price came crashing down. People started losing money. Real-life money.

Blizzard created a brand new economy, and it just crashed. A Hamburger Dagger crash. A digital weapon that your digital character could either stab mobs with or eat caused a miniature economic bubble-burst economic cycle. Amazing.

So I just heard of this game called Tokyo Jungle for PS3/PSN. I might buy it when I get home.

The concept sounds awesome. Apparently the graphics suck and the gameplay isn't that deep and the reviews are mixed but I love this concept. Basically all the humans in Tokyo disappear and the animals are set loose and have to survive. Everything from housepets to zoo animals and they're all playable but you have to unlock animals and upgrades by playing. I just wish there were killable humans in the game.

I am trying to avoid it. There are games I want to buy, but since I am only going to play a few PC games next year while I finish off the Wii once and for all, I am trying not to buy anything. The same games will be on sale next winter and some of them will be even cheaper then.

As of late, I've been on something of an oldschool kick. It seems retro or retro-style games are piquing my interest. A lot of these games are 2-D side-scrolling platformers. Then, I start thinking of platformers in general, and I realize what a desolate wasteland the Xbox 360 is in terms of action-packed scavenger-hunting platformers. Nintendo has Mario, and Sony has Ratchet and Clank (and then some). M$ has...what? Kameo? That's a sorry-ass excuse for a platformer. Seems the only platformers on Xbox are either emulations of previously-released games, or third-party games that have long-since passed their prime. (Crash Bandicoot, for example. Crash Bandicoot is an abortion of a franchise.)

So, I figured out a way to make the rally pack in Forza Horizon a little less...suck. I went into the HUD menu, and turned off position/split time indicator. Now, I can just focus on the out-of-control rallying that I wanted. There's not too much in terms of variety in the rally pack. When they said "rally," that's just what they meant. It's like an unlicensed attempt at making a straight-up WRC-style game. Just point-to-point timed stages.

As of late, I've been on something of an oldschool kick. It seems retro or retro-style games are piquing my interest. A lot of these games are 2-D side-scrolling platformers. Then, I start thinking of platformers in general, and I realize what a desolate wasteland the Xbox 360 is in terms of action-packed scavenger-hunting platformers. Nintendo has Mario, and Sony has Ratchet and Clank (and then some). M$ has...what? Kameo? That's a sorry-ass excuse for a platformer. Seems the only platformers on Xbox are either emulations of previously-released games, or third-party games that have long-since passed their prime. (Crash Bandicoot, for example. Crash Bandicoot is an abortion of a franchise.)

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I WANNA PLAY VOODOO VINCE, GADAMMIT!!!

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Did you ever finish Crackdown? I have one more agility orb to collect, it sits out there still, mocking me. Were I smarter I would have saved a known location for the last orb but I got the count wrong. I thought I missed that collect'em style gameplay til I tried Ratchet & Clank then realized that I didn't.

Currently I'm playing through the rally pack of Horizon (thought it would be free roaming though) and an uber Shepard with all the decisions as I want them.

As of late, I've been on something of an oldschool kick. It seems retro or retro-style games are piquing my interest. A lot of these games are 2-D side-scrolling platformers. Then, I start thinking of platformers in general, and I realize what a desolate wasteland the Xbox 360 is in terms of action-packed scavenger-hunting platformers. Nintendo has Mario, and Sony has Ratchet and Clank (and then some). M$ has...what? Kameo? That's a sorry-ass excuse for a platformer. Seems the only platformers on Xbox are either emulations of previously-released games, or third-party games that have long-since passed their prime. (Crash Bandicoot, for example. Crash Bandicoot is an abortion of a franchise.)

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I WANNA PLAY VOODOO VINCE, GADAMMIT!!!

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Did you ever finish Crackdown? I have one more agility orb to collect, it sits out there still, mocking me. Were I smarter I would have saved a known location for the last orb but I got the count wrong. I thought I missed that collect'em style gameplay til I tried Ratchet & Clank then realized that I didn't.

Currently I'm playing through the rally pack of Horizon (thought it would be free roaming though) and an uber Shepard with all the decisions as I want them.

As of late, I've been on something of an oldschool kick. It seems retro or retro-style games are piquing my interest. A lot of these games are 2-D side-scrolling platformers. Then, I start thinking of platformers in general, and I realize what a desolate wasteland the Xbox 360 is in terms of action-packed scavenger-hunting platformers. Nintendo has Mario, and Sony has Ratchet and Clank (and then some). M$ has...what? Kameo? That's a sorry-ass excuse for a platformer. Seems the only platformers on Xbox are either emulations of previously-released games, or third-party games that have long-since passed their prime. (Crash Bandicoot, for example. Crash Bandicoot is an abortion of a franchise.)

[ADDED LATER]

I WANNA PLAY VOODOO VINCE, GADAMMIT!!!

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Did you ever finish Crackdown? I have one more agility orb to collect, it sits out there still, mocking me. Were I smarter I would have saved a known location for the last orb but I got the count wrong. I thought I missed that collect'em style gameplay til I tried Ratchet & Clank then realized that I didn't.

Currently I'm playing through the rally pack of Horizon (thought it would be free roaming though) and an uber Shepard with all the decisions as I want them.

I just found out Planetside 2 doesn't give experience points for base defending. No wonder territories are never held for very long. No one cares if they keep them or not. I think it's time for some of the old rules from the original game to be reinstated.

I just found out Planetside 2 doesn't give experience points for base defending. No wonder territories are never held for very long. No one cares if they keep them or not. I think it's time for some of the old rules from the original game to be reinstated.

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I think you get extra experience for defending, something like 10 % extra I think it was.